Connecticut western news., 1887-01-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Gray and stone color is new combi- nation.
 Poplin is revived. It is used for dra peries over velvet skirts.
 White dresses for children are, of camePs hair or cashmere.
 Mrs. Mary Plcasants (colored), of San Francisco, is worth S250, 900.
 Passementerie and plush ribbon are ac- cessories for tulle evening dresses.
 Suede or white cloth vests are used in red, heliotrope or green cloth gowns.
 Mrs. Cleveland is an active member ot the Eorsewoman's Club Of Washington.
 At the Univerity of Zuri h, Switzer- land, ten rer cent. of tho students are ladies.
 Crosswise draperics are the distin- gushing feature of tho new French cos tum,s.
 Mary Hooper,a a Cleveland servant girl, has inherited $250, ,00o f,om relative in Philadelphia.
 FFocks of hlai1 material have cuffs and epaulets of plaid, and the overskirt is lined with plaid.
 Queen Victoria's dessert service of old Sevres-thc finest ln the worli-is valued at $25e,OOU.
 Chinchilla, silver fox and badger fur and grcbe skins are employed for trim ming evening dresses.
 Low bodces have no sleeves; but sim ply strap df epaulet, embellished With | flowers of bows of ribbcb
 La"e is driving out frilling in Eng. land, and Honiton factories arc turning out all they can, While more is wanted
 Sleeves arc placed very high upon the bodice, and have only enough fulness to adapt them to the shape of the shoulder.
 High velvet bands or short loops of ribbon are taking the place of soft tuck CTS and frillings for the throat and wrists.
 Collars of dress,s are sometimes trimmed to resemble a necklace, with embroidery and drops of jet or old silver.
 Small fir cones, pierced and finished with bead at each end, are, it Is said. to be used as a finish for the brims of hats and bonnets
 Swans down is used for trimming the collars and cuffs of chii lrcn's white frocks. Velvet of bright tint is so used for the same purpose.
 Polona;sss of gra cful and simple shapes will be made of cloth, and worn ovcr plaid or blocked velvet or plush skirts of contrasting color. | French millincrs are using tulle upon winter bonnets, in combination with velvet and plush. White lace is also vo,ch usaI for ,,,,rpocas
 Tul.e Russe, rew yelling net, is a square- meshcd, very open lace, having dots very nearly square in shape. It is shown in all the popular colors.
 Skirts this sea on show but little full. ness over the hips, the small paniers seen oh the Frehch dresses being cut true tc tho fig Ire, in no way enlarging it.
 Some of the hew hats make t'e wcare, appear ;ts if she were going to market with fat bird on her head, after the manner of the West Indian negroes
 Vests, plastrons, separate waistcoats, plaited shoulders, the surplice front Tapped to the left side and rever; of all kinds are seen on the newest French dresses.
 Some of the new muffs have an entire l Dlrd Ot large Sl%e Tor ornament The et- feet is not pleasant; it is as if the wcare, were engaged in struggle to keep the creature from gettihg away. Usually the hat corresponds, and the. bird thereon seems as if ready to swoop down anc take part in the fray.
 The Prussian State railways have fol some tire past employed women a: guards at crossihgs. The work consists chiefly of the closing aud opening of tho bars and tho lighting and sweeping o1 crossings, and the women in most cases are either the wives Or w.dows of guards Thclr pay is from twelve to twenty cent per day.
 l The latest impoi tation of bonnets arc combinations of velvet with fur of like shade, the fur being used upon the brim and the velvet for the oddly shaped crowa Marie Stuart brims, much modi fcl in shape, are shown in some O these, and the whole bonnet is mucf smaller than the comfortable ones worr year ago.